Drawing base line work

- [Instructor] Drawing is a progressive skill.…You start rough and continue to make…revisions and improvements until…you get the look and feel you're after.…In the next several movies, we're…going to focus on each stage of development…as we work out our drawn artwork.…In this movie, we'll start with…the base line work, so let's get started.…It all starts with the under drawing.…The under drawing will serve the…purpose of guiding our proportions.…Once again, it's very crude, very rough…at this stage, but it utilizes brushes…such as this one, which is very faint,…just to kind of start working out…the bottom line, fundamental of how…this is going to be shaped and it's going to…be formed, then we can take another brush,…which is a little darker in terms of drawing…with it, and we can use that to start to…refine our shape and refine our drawing…and figure out exactly what we're going to do.…

In this case, this is going to be a warrior character.…This type of under drawing is going to…guide your proportions, it's not…

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9/27/2017

If you've ever thought your illustration skills to be somewhat lacking, it's never too late to add drawing to your toolkit. In this course, Von Glitschka breaks down the fundamentals of drawing—specifically, digital drawing—by taking you through how to work with Adobe Illustrator. He shows how to work with different drawing tools in Illustrator; covers drawing fundamentals such as how to work with light, shadow, and texture; discusses different forms of drawing, such as gesture drawing, contour drawing, and still life; and highlights how to use Illustrator in ways you may not have considered. Von ends the course with a review of several inspiring digital illustrators, and a drawing challenge that can help you find your own unique style.